THE WAR ISN'T OVER – AT 10:47 A.M. ET:  Americans have lost interest in Iraq.  Led by a president who will not admit, to this day, that anything was accomplished by the removal of Saddam Hussein, we forget that there is still an enemy determined to prove Barack Hussein Obama right.  From The New York Times:

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi capital echoed with explosions on Sunday, with three suicide car bombings killing dozens of people around Baghdad. Other bombs and rockets went off at widely scattered locations, paralyzing traffic and disrupting communications throughout the city.

An official in the Interior Ministry said there were three suicide bombers who had targeted the Iranian embassy as well as the residences of the Egyptian chargé d’affaires and the German ambassador, all in the Mansour District and nearby on the western side of the city. Officials said that at least 32 people were killed in all, with dozens more seriously wounded. Separately, a police official in Kerrada, a neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, said that a fourth would-be suicide bomber targeted the offices of the government’s embassy protective services but policemen shot and wounded the driver before he could detonate his bomb.

COMMENT:  There have been a number of major attacks in Baghad recently, and we've barely taken notice.  Our enemies know that we are leaving Iraq.  The president has, out of the common courtesy of appeasers and leftist intellectuals, given a pretty precise timetable.  The blasts are aimed at weakening democratic government in Iraq, and those setting off the charges know there will soon be no American force in the country to smoke them out and beat them.

Of course, we all hope the Iraqis, on their own, can build a sane democracy.  It is difficult enough anywhere, more difficult in a culture where there is no democratic tradition.  And more difficult still when the president of the United States has done all in his power to disparage our mission there.  Success, if it comes, will belong to George W. Bush and David Petraeus, but you can be sure that Barack Obama will take the bows. 

If there is failure, the mainstream media will blame Bush alone.

April 4, 2010